Updates with home plantations not accepted
RIO DE JANEIRO, Dec 3 (Reuters) – Brazilian pharmaceutical regulator Anvisa on Tuesday accepted laws for the roll-out of medicinal cannabis-based merchandise however in a separate vote blocked a proposal to permit home medical marijuana plantations.
Anvisa’s approval of guidelines to control the nascent medical marijuana market represents a significant shift in a rustic that has suffered years of lethal drug violence.
Nonetheless, the choice to ban home plantations reveals that Brazil, led by far-right President Jair Bolsonaro, shouldn’t be but keen to affix friends Colombia and Uruguay and develop its personal vertically built-in medical marijuana sector.
A spokesman for Anvisa mentioned that Brazilian companies desirous about manufacturing cannabis-based merchandise would wish to import inputs from aboard.
It its assertion saying the regulatory approval, Anvisa mentioned the brand new guidelines could be…